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A Smart T-Shirt That Monitors Vital Signs Without Wires

Posted September 27, 2011 1:59 PM

From Fast Company:

If you've ever been to the hospital, you probably are famiiar with the holter monitor, a device for measuring electrical activity in the nervous system. And you probably also know what holters tend to look like: a bunch of unsightly and uncomfortable plastic patches and wires attached to a bulky, beeping screen. The alternative could come in the form of a system being developed by researchers at Carlos III University in Madrid that uses a tank top instead of rubber suckers, and dispenses with the wires in favor of, well, a completely wireless set-up.

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09/28/2011 6:48 AM

I would certainly like to know how the ECG is recorded. A conventional ECG electode is silver with a silver chloride layer, with gel to improve the contact, and is stuck firmly to the skin to avoid movement artefacts. Presumably this T-shirt has dozens of conductive patches and employs a lot of signal processing which is not going to be easy. The signal at the skin is of the order of 1-2 mV, and will be at high impedance to the T-shirt contact.
In German there is an aphorism "It sounds a bit Spanish to me", which translates to "I doubt this makes sense".

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